Shoe



May 26, 1925.

G. L. PIERCE Filed' March 25, 192.4

31a/13211.* ot

Patented May 26, 1925.1

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE L. PIERCE, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO A. G. SPALDING & BROS., 0F NEW YORK. N. Y., A CORPORATION OIE' NEW JERSEY.

SHOE.

Application led March 25, 1924. Serial No. 701,769.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE L. PIERCE, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented certain Vnew and useful Improvements in Shoes, of which the following is a specification.

My ypresent, invention relates to improvements in shoes of the type known as turned, having rubber soles, and is designed more especially for embodiment athletic shoes, though use.

The invention aims to provide an improved connection between the rubber outsole and the shoe proper, andcomprises the novel construction hereinafter described and particularly defined by the claims appended hereto.

An embodiment of my invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a side elevation of my improved shoe.

lig. 2 is a section on line 2-2 of Fig. 1, an

Fig. 3 is a section taken on a similar line but showing the shoe before'being turned. Referring by reference characters to this drawing, the numeral 1 designates the upper, which may be of any suitable material, being shown in the drawing as of canvas or duck, and being provided with a toe cap 1a of suitable material, such for example as leather. The main sole or Awhat may pro-perly term an intermediate sole indicated at 2, is preferably composed of leather, and is united to the upper by stitching, indicated at 3, in the manner customary in turned shoes, which is well" understood by those skilled inthe art.

Prior to the application of the sole to, or its connection with the upper, Ivadhesivcly secure to the sole member 2 one edge of a f weltJ strip 4 which lpreferably comprises a strip of rubberized fabric or what is known to the trade as friction fabric,- whereafter not limited to such the sole -member and upper are juxtaposed and stitched together as described.

After the shoe is turned, an outsole of rubber, preferably of crpe rubber, as shown at 5, is applied and adhesively retained in place, preferably by the interposition of a layer of rubberized fabric` as indicated at 6, and thereafter the'welt strip 4 is turned down over and adhesively secured to the peripheral edge of the sole, whereby a very Iirm union is effected and separation of the sole at the edge effectively prevented.

The shoe is provided with the-customary insole indicated at '7.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is:

1. In a turned shoe an upper and an intermediate sole stitched together, a strip of suitable material having one edge. lying between the edge ofthe upper and the edge of theintermediate sole, and secured by the connecting stitches, and a rubber outsole, the free edge of said strip being adhesively seured to vthe edge surface of the rubber so e.

2. In a turned shoe an upper and an intermediate sole stitched of suitable material having one edge lying between the edge of the upper and the edge of the intermediate sole, and secured by the connecting stitches, and a rubber outsole, a layer of rubberized fabric adhesively securing said outsole to the main sole'.

3. The herein described method of mak- 'ing a turned shoe which consists in adhesively securing one margin of a welt strip to one face of a sole member adjacent the edge thereof, uniting said strip and sole member with said upper by stitches', shoe, thereafter adhesively applying an outsole, and turning the welt strip down over together, a strip turning the and adhesively securing it to the edge of the sole.

In testimony whereof I affix 'my signature.

GEORGE L. PIERCE. 

